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Mrgrgr

A game being bad from a good franchise doesn't necessarily kill the sales of that game because of how front loaded game sales are. It can severely hurt the sales of the next game in the franchise though.

FF XV could be subject to both of those factors though given the reputation of FF XIII and XIV, well, XIV before they scrapped it and made a new game.

Generally the way you kill your sales the hardest is having a game that people don't like or felt had major flaws and then following it up with a game that looks bad, uninteresting, and/or like it doesn't fix any of the problems or evolve the series in a meaningful way.

I could imagine a scenario where Japanese consumers weren't super thrilled with Final Fantasy XIII and then feel that Final Fantasy XV's open world action-rpg proposal isn't especially compelling.

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That doesnt make any sense, being NX probably more a portable than anything.
Judge the JRPGS result on the ds and 3ds would probably be more fitting to the discussion.
I cant see a point of view for which going ps4 / nx (if nx will be a portable with moderate success able to rin UE4 and other shared assest) would not be seen as wise for many Japanese companies

But yeah, I agree with you. I'm pro PS4/NX too. I think there will be other factors that will keep some franchises exclusive but I think the bulk of them should be multiplat. Bring some PS franchises over to Nintendo and bring some Nintendo over to PS.

Well maybe I am just used to these mega big AAA games shipping sometimes over 10 million units first week and not having sell trough anywhere near it during first month (like Fallout 4 or Battlefront last year).

Generally the way you kill your sales the hardest is having a game that people don't like or felt had major flaws and then following it up with a game that looks bad, uninteresting, and/or like it doesn't fix any of the problems or evolve the series in a meaningful way.

I could imagine a scenario where Japanese consumers weren't super thrilled with Final Fantasy XIII and then feel that Final Fantasy XV's open world action-rpg proposal isn't especially compelling.

El Capitan Todd

But yeah, I agree with you. I'm pro PS4/NX too. I think there will be other factors that will keep some franchises exclusive but I think the bulk of them should be multiplat. Bring some PS franchises over to Nintendo and bring some Nintendo over to PS.